Mammon

a way of talking about money and wealth when it has become the most important thing in somebody’s life and as important as a godgamblers worshipping at the temple of MammonWord Originlate Middle English: via late Latin from New Testament Greekmamōnas (see Matt. 6:24, Luke 16:9–13 in the Bible), from Aramaicmāmōn

‘riches’

. The word was taken by medieval writers as the name of the devil of covetousness, and revived in this sense by the English poet Milton.